hs THE ORCHID REVIEW. [AucusT, 1903. 
having too much water during winter or early spring, and even when the 
new growths are several inches long they should receive very little water. 
Red spider also has a particular fancy for it, and soon injures the young 
-growths, if not kept in check, which should be done by sponging the under 
side of the leaves with weak Fir-tree oil and water” (O. R., ili., p. 55). It 
is a most beautiful plant, and one of the most effective in the genus when 
-seen in good condition. : 
SOCIETIES. 
ROYAL HORTICULTURAL. 
“A MEETING of this Society was held at the Drill Hall, Buckingham Gate, 
Westmiuster, on July 7th. The exhibits of Orchids always show a marked 
falling-off in the summer months, and this occasion was no exception to the 
-general rule, there being only five exhibitors. Three Medals, however, were 
awarded for groups. 
Sir Frederick Wigan, Clare Lawn, East Sheen (gr. Mr. Young), was 
awarded a Silver Banksian Medal for a fine collection of cut flowers of 
Sobralias, including S. xantholeuca, S. x Veitchii aurea, the rose purple 
S. macrantha, and the fine S. X Wiganiz, which has the white sepals and 
petals irregularly shaded and marbled with light yellow and lavender, and 
the lip light rose veined with white, and chrome yellow in the throat. 
There were also two forms of Cypripedium Godefroy leucochilum, the 
ground colour of one being white and the other pale yellow. 
R. Young, Esq.. Sefton Park, Liverpool, showed a flower of his new 
Cypripedium X Ultor (Lawrenceanum ¢? Sanderianum ¢), together with 
a photograph, showing the three-flowered inflorescence. It is a fine thing- 
having the dorsal sepal ovate, acuminate, and whitish green with purple- 
brown central band and rows of similar dots on either side, and drooping | 
petals, nine inches long, whitish green and undulate in the arching basal 
part, and tinted with rose-purple beyond, the middle part being also spotted 
with purple-brown. — 
The Hon. W. Rothschild, Tring Park, Tring (gr. Mr. Hill), showed the 
handsome Lelio-cattleya X Mauve Queen Tring Park variety (C. Warneri 
% L. crispa superba), a fine form having white sepals and _ petals delicately 
tinted with rose, and the front lobe of the lip crimson purple, with the disc 
bright yellow. 
Messrs, Sander & Sons, St. Albans, staged a very fine group, which 
eemed . Silver-gilt Flora Medal. It contained good examples of Maxillaria 
Sanderiana, Gongora galeata, Stanhopea oculata, Angraecum pertusum) 
Cymbidium tigrinum, Miltonia vexillaria superba, Oncidium macranthum, 
Cattleya x Preciosa inversa, C. Mossia Reineckiana, C. M. azurea, and 
